SFist Blotter

In this time of Gulf Coast suffering and the fourth anniversary of 9/11 coming up, it's good to see that everyone in Berkeley still has things in perspective -- an 11-year-old girl is frantically searching for the stuffed mouse she lost when she thoughtlessly tied it to two helium balloons and let it fly out her window. Here's the lost and found ad they posted. Her mother says, "Mousie is a part of the family," and they hypothesize that the mouse may have blown out to Ohio by now. The girl, somewhat defensively, says, "I know it's not a real mouse. I know there are bigger tragedies, like the hurricane. But it's a tragedy to me."

In actual criminal news, the Alameda County DA's office has brought charges against an Oakland cop who was allegedly illegally stopping cars driven by Asian women and then "patting" and kissing them. Shouldn't that cop be focusing on looking for a stuffed mouse tied to two helium balloons in the skies instead?

And the jury in the Gwen Araujo case has come to a verdict on two of the three defendants on trial for killing the transgender teen. Those two verdicts are sealed as the jury continues deliberating on the third defendant.